Aggressive SEO tactics are ruining search results on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, a team of researchers in Germany says.

Google is getting worse as it loses its fight against search engine spam::Aggressive SEO tactics are ruining search results on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, a team of researchers in Germany says.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
    18·
    10 months ago

    I’ve noticed that using more advanced syntax helps to alleviate the issue, in both DDG and Google. Specially apostrophes (to force exact terms) and the minus (to remove results containing a certain word or expression).

    • criticon@lemmy.caEnglish
      191·
      10 months ago

      I noticed recently that Google has been ignoring my commands sporadically on Mobile. They still work if I switch to desktop mode tho